Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.